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I don't know if anywhere in Truth Or Consequences has any, but that will be your last stop in civilization if you're headed to A. There's a Walmart and one or two little groceries there though. You might call them and see.I'm in 21. Planning to hunt 21A.
I'm hunting mule deer in New Mexico this year during the rifle season (Nov 10-14). I'll be driving down a couple of days early from Wisconsin, hunting for up to 5 days, and then driving all the way back home.
I want to keep my deer bone-in so I will clearly need a cooler (or coolers) big enough to hold a bone-in quartered mule deer and also keep my ice the whole time I'm hunting.
From some other posts I've read, some folks say a 110 quart cooler will work. However, based on the inside dimensions of some 110 and 125 quart coolers, it seems pretty unlikely you can actually fit a whole quartered deer in one of those with enough ice to keep it cool for the return trip. Am I wrong on that?
I'd like to go with an American made cooler if I'm going to be forking out that much money and it seems the Bison 125 Quart would be a decent fit for my truck. However, I want to make sure one of these will really fit a whole deer or do I need to buy two...
Also, are there other US made coolers that I'm missing that have a large enough model for a whole deer?
With the new rules about deboning and not moving the animal out of the county etc etc why not just debone the whole thing and go with an RTIC 45 or Grizzly Kenai 45? I think if you bring the quarters back to WI you would then have to bring all the meat to a processor within 72 hours with this new Emergency Rule? You may be doing that anyway but I process my own deer and I would just debone it at the kill site, why pack the bones all the way home?